We build our own tools.
When something in the shop needs a tool that doesn't exist, we build it. That happens more than you would think, and building it always teaches us what the problem actually was.
These three are still running here every day.
They are the method applied to ourselves. A question nobody had answered for us, answered with our hands.
How do you hand someone a move you only know how to make?
Every player we tried was built for finishing a video, not for staying in one place. The scrub bar is a promise of progress, and a person learning a physical process does not want progress. They want the same four seconds again.
So we built a medium for repetition. One move at a time, looping until you have it.
We publish everything we teach this way now, which is the only proof that matters for a teaching tool.
Loop it till you got it.
How do you keep a room with you for a whole hour?
A lecture is a one-way street and everyone in the room knows it. We wanted the audience able to say something without standing up, without downloading anything, without breaking the talk.
Bubbles puts live comments on the screen as they arrive. People scan a code, type, and watch their words appear.
We use it in our own talks. That is the entire reason it exists and the only reason it works.
What if the audience could talk back?
How does a contractor invoice you in under a minute?
We work with people who make things, not people who enjoy paperwork. Every invoicing tool we looked at wanted an account, a subscription, and a dashboard.
TallyTape is a page. You fill it in, you send it, you are done. Nothing leaves the browser.
It costs us almost nothing to run, so it stays free.
Zero accounts. Zero servers touching your data.
None of these were on a roadmap. Each was a problem we had, answered by making something and seeing.
That is the method. It is documented in full in Applied Curiosity.
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